‘Social and Environmental Justice Perspectives from and for Global Feminisms’

‘Social and Environmental Justice: Perspectives from and for Global Feminisms’ Global Feminisms Collaborative April 24 and 25th, Curb Center – Buttrick 123 Agenda Thursday, April 24 th

‘Social and Environmental Justice:

Perspectives from and for Global

Feminisms’

Global Feminisms Collaborative April 24 and 25th, Curb Center – Buttrick 123

Agenda

Thursday, April 24 th

9:00 – 9:30 light breakfast

9:30 – 12:00 pm (Facilitator: Katy Attanasi)

• Introductions

• Feminist Environmentalism and Neo-Liberal Globalization: Activist Initiatives for Environmental Justice (paper presentation by

Sonalini)

• Questions of “the” movements project (Brooke and Lyndi)

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch

1:00 – 4:00 pm (Facilitator: Lyndi Hewitt)

• Examine the linkages that the women’s environmental movement

is making with other progressive actors and movements

o Example from GFC: Equity Offset Project (Mike Vandenbergh, Law School, and Brooke)

o Guests’ examples (e.g Conspirando – building a network based on ecofeminist spirituality)

• Look at some of the institutional obstacles that exist in feminist

environmental organizations making the linkages they need to (Joni

Seager’s question)

6:00 pm

Dinner at Brooke’s house

Friday, April 25 th* Please note that we will be proceeding directly

9:00 – 9:30 light breakfast

9:30 – 12:00 pm (Facilitator: Sonalini Sapra)

• How do we disseminate the information that feminist

environmentalists have more broadly (Lorena Aguilar’s question)

• How do we educate donors and other professionals in the

development sector about gender and climate change/other

environmental issues? (Lorena Aguilar’s question)

• How do we build linkages with donors in a way that strengthens

women’s environmental movements? (Mary Judith Ress’s question)

• How do we show the utility of feminist analysis to issues related to the environment given the hegemony of the sciences in issues

related to the environment? (Joni Seager’s question)

• What kind of interaction between grassroots women working on environmental issues and donors would enhance women’s

movements?

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00-5:00 pm

Research ideas, institutional ideas and next steps (Facilitator: Brooke Ackerly)

• How and on what terms to activists want to inform research: as

question askers, informants, audience…

• In what way can the research done by actors in the academy

provide some input to ‘gender and environment’ discussions (e.g

feminist analysis of climate change) – (Lorena Aguilar and Joni

Seager’s questions)

• What role can actors in the academy play in strengthening the work

done by women’s environmental activists? (Mary Judith Ress’s

question)

6:00 pm

Dinner and musical performance at Bluebird Cafe

Participants –

Srilatha Batliwala from the Hauser Center for non-profit

organizations at Harvard University (with decades of experience

in gender, development and sustainability), Joni Seager

(feminist geographer) from Hunter College, Lorena Aguilar from

the World Conservation Union (also with decades of experience in

gender, development and sustainability), Mary Judith Ress

from Con-spirando (an eco-feminist movement organization),

Shana Griffin from the New Orleans Women's Health and Justice

Initiative (founded in New Orleans after the public hospital closed leaving women in her community without affordable health care)

and Loretta Ross from SisterSong (a network of Women of Color

health initiatives that is launching its reproductive and

environmental justice movement initiative this summer).

Co-sponsors

Center for Ethics Center for the Study of Religion and Culture

The Commons

Dean’s Fund, School of Nursing Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Program

Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center Center for Latin American Studies Department of Political Science Climate Change Research Network Vanderbilt Regulatory Program Women’s and Gender Studies Center for Medicine, Health and Society

Carpenter Program

Center for Bio-Medical Ethics and Society